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Re: Archiving Video - any ideas
« Reply #30 on: 30 September 2009, 04:12:56 »
Not sure if it's what you're after but a storage solution I have is a Drobo mk2. It's like a RAID enclosure but a lot more simple. I have many many gigabytes of video, either rips from DVDs or downloaded tv. I got the Drobo because I couldn't spare the time for countless DVD burns as backup. :y

It takes upto 4 sata drives, you choose what size goes in - mix & match if you like - and if there's more than 1 it has redundancy for 1 drive failing. I currently have 3 1TB and 1 500GB drive in there so total storage is actually 2.3TB. I did start with a couple of 500GB and 320 GBs, it's not fussed what goes in!

It has firewire 800 and usb connectivity and these days you can get a droboshare free which adds networking too.

Some consider it an expensive box, i have had no problems and the peace of mind and simplicity are priceless. It saves any hassle/thoughts of raid configs and having to have matching drives.

My friend has a DroboPro which takes 8 drives in one 19" rackmount unit and can do redundancy for 2 drives.... that one really is overkill for most home use!

If you want to be burning DVDs then DVD writers are cheap as chips these days in the unlucky event you wear yours out!

just my late night tuppence worth.... toodles!
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Re: Archiving Video - any ideas
« Reply #31 on: 30 September 2009, 07:57:08 »
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Half tempted to spread it over a large number of DVDs - but would that kill my burner?
At one point in time, some manufacturers were writing it in to the drive firmware that you could only do 1000 burns (although they have stopped that since).

However, as you can buy brand new 16x DVD-RW drives for £16 inc VAT, it doesn't matter whether you knock the 'dangle berries' out of the drive or not.
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Re: Archiving Video - any ideas
« Reply #32 on: 30 September 2009, 14:14:07 »
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« Reply #33 on: 30 September 2009, 20:26:07 »
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Large capacity drives prices are still coming down.

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/newsletter?productId=37094&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1.5TB+Samsung+EcoGreen+F2+SATA-2+Hard+Drive&utm_campaign=newsletter300909
Nice price for the size, shame it's been lumbered with a 5400rpm spindle though.
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« Reply #34 on: 30 September 2009, 20:31:59 »
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Large capacity drives prices are still coming down.

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/newsletter?productId=37094&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1.5TB+Samsung+EcoGreen+F2+SATA-2+Hard+Drive&utm_campaign=newsletter300909
Nice price for the size, shame it's been lumbered with a 5400rpm spindle though.

True, but not critical just for storing wads of big files.
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« Reply #35 on: 30 September 2009, 20:40:50 »
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Large capacity drives prices are still coming down.

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/newsletter?productId=37094&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1.5TB+Samsung+EcoGreen+F2+SATA-2+Hard+Drive&utm_campaign=newsletter300909
Nice price for the size, shame it's been lumbered with a 5400rpm spindle though.

True, but not critical just for storing wads of big files.
Critical, no.
Noticeable when reading & writing, definately.
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« Reply #36 on: 30 September 2009, 22:20:45 »
5400 is the new trend on large drives.  The drive manufacturers claim similar performance due to better caching and firmware, but obviously if doing large file copies, the slower speed will eventually show.
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Re: Archiving Video - any ideas
« Reply #37 on: 30 September 2009, 23:06:01 »
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5400 is the new trend on large drives.  The drive manufacturers claim similar performance due to better caching and firmware, but obviously if doing large file copies, the slower speed will eventually show.

Power consumption is usually a little lower, though, which can be important in an always-on application where speed isn't the be all...

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« Reply #38 on: 01 October 2009, 18:19:29 »
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5400 is the new trend on large drives.  The drive manufacturers claim similar performance due to better caching and firmware, but obviously if doing large file copies, the slower speed will eventually show.

Power consumption is usually a little lower, though, which can be important in an always-on application where speed isn't the be all...

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Exactly, which is why it tends to be only on large drives currently (in the consumer section) - many want large capacity, but infrequent access.

The Enterprise market has also gone that way, but that is because there are real savings to be made in energy reduction
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« Reply #39 on: 04 October 2009, 20:50:44 »
D: is up to 405GB and new captures along up to 250GB
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« Reply #40 on: 04 October 2009, 21:21:31 »
Hehe, I have annother 1TB drive coming on wednesday (Trying a WD one this time - srill 32mb cache tho) current hard drive is filling up far too fast since I bought the Fuji S2000HD camera.  Been having a play with the multi shot and continous pic taking options.
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« Reply #41 on: 04 October 2009, 22:14:50 »
I noticed Tesco have a WD 1Gb external for under £70, which I thought was quite good for a non mail order place.


I really cannot stress this highly enough, rarely used HDDs make a piss poor backup regime.  I've fallen foul of that over the weekend.  Fortunately, I can confirm that LTO tapes are more reliable, though obviously out of reach for many.
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« Reply #42 on: 05 October 2009, 08:30:32 »
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I noticed Tesco have a WD 1Gb external for under £70, which I thought was quite good for a non mail order place.


I really cannot stress this highly enough, rarely used HDDs make a piss poor backup regime.  I've fallen foul of that over the weekend.  Fortunately, I can confirm that LTO tapes are more reliable, though obviously out of reach for many.


I have learnt the hard way with most types of back up.  I have found the best and probably the laziest way for me is the Hard drive, with regular backups to annother machine.  My pictices tend to get copied to evey machine that gets booted up (and there are quite a few  :-[)  Plus I have a dediacted PC just for video clips and pictures.

Am wanting a stand alone PC now where I can sycronise a folder to backup/duplicate/syscronise each of the "My Documents" folders on each machine.  Any ides for software to deal with that would be appreciated.  TIA.   :y
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« Reply #43 on: 05 October 2009, 19:45:42 »
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I noticed Tesco have a WD 1Gb external for under £70, which I thought was quite good for a non mail order place.


I really cannot stress this highly enough, rarely used HDDs make a piss poor backup regime.  I've fallen foul of that over the weekend.  Fortunately, I can confirm that LTO tapes are more reliable, though obviously out of reach for many.


I have learnt the hard way with most types of back up.  I have found the best and probably the laziest way for me is the Hard drive, with regular backups to annother machine.  My pictices tend to get copied to evey machine that gets booted up (and there are quite a few  :-[)  Plus I have a dediacted PC just for video clips and pictures.

Am wanting a stand alone PC now where I can sycronise a folder to backup/duplicate/syscronise each of the "My Documents" folders on each machine.  Any ides for software to deal with that would be appreciated.  TIA.   :y
I know its extreme, but I had 3 disks fail over the weekend. 


Take a look at Home Server, which automatically backs up your PCs. Not ever used it myself, so don't know full ins and outs
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« Reply #44 on: 05 October 2009, 19:46:41 »
Another option, though limits storage, and it hammers your net connection, but MS Live Mesh (www.mesh.com).  Probably not suitable for your needs though
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